Erle Stanley Gardner Quotes
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.
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There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
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I want to get the maximum out of my career. Football is my life. And when my career is over, I want to look after my family to help my children. That is all.
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A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.
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The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?
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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
